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ABC Animals

Alphabet Learning

This original photo book for toddlers and preschoolers helps them learn the alphabet as they encounter colorful animals from A to Z – Alligators to Zebras. Easy-to-read fascinating facts accompany each animal. 

A Boston University study has shown that toddlers who learn from realistic photos and drawings are more likely to remember the names of animals. It’s called “iconicity.” Reading this photo book with your child will spark and hold their interest and help them to recognize things that they may not see every day.

Fun learning for kids, their parents and their grandparents. Kids will recognize their favorite animals and learn new ones.

A Curt Peoples Photo Collection.

  • A lively way to introduce kids to the ABCs
  • Helps kids and adults discuss what makes each animal unique
  • For ages 2-5
    toddlers and Preschoolers
  • Hardback
    32 pages. 8-inch square format makes the photos big and appealing to toddlers.
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Count 1, 2, 3 Outdoors

For Toddlers Learning to Count

This colorful picture book invites toddlers and preschoolers to learn their numbers by counting plants and animals in the outdoors — butterflies, flowers, cactuses, trees and more. It's a lively way to introduce kids to numbers 1-12 — the first foundation to learning math.

The 80+ vivid photos of animals and natural objects in this book will make counting a natural part of how your child interacts with the world. Fascinating facts and insightful quotes about nature add meaning to the numbers and hold your toddler's attention as they enjoy reading the book again and again

A Curt Peoples Photo Collection.

  • Perfect book to engage kids any time of day
  • For kids and adults to count out loud together
  • For ages 2-5
    Photos are big and appealing to toddlers and preschoolers
  • Hardback
    32 pages, 8-inches square
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I See You Bunny

Even though everyone loves bunnies, this delightfully illustrated poem explains why they’re not always welcome in the garden.

  • Children’s fiction
    Language Arts
  • Full color illustrations
  • Hard cover
    7-inches square, 20 pages
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Green! A colorful story

The color green is terribly misunderstood. Sometimes green things are seen as fresh and good. But sometimes they are not so wonderful – like snakes and slime and brussels sprouts! In this illustrated rhyming conversation between two best friends, we listen to them realize how complicated the color green is – with shades of good, bad and in-between, just like every human being.

  • Children’s fiction
  • Full color illustrations
    (especially green ones)
  • Hard cover
    7-inches square, 24 pages
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Red! Bold, bright, loud and brave

Red’s the best! In this story, a red-haired boy shows how red is a color you cannot ignore. The playful rhymes and bursting illustrations help you see the color red in a different light.

  • Children’s fiction
  • Full color illustrations
    (especially red ones)
  • Hard cover
    7-inches square, 20 pages
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Blue! We see it every day

Have you ever wondered about your name? In this illustrated story, a dog wonders about his name and is ultimately surprised at who finally gives him the answer. A delightful story to enjoy and learn about the color blue.

  • Children’s fiction
  • Full color illustrations
    (especially blue ones)
  • Hard cover
    7-inches square, 24 pages
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Yellow! Happy and bright

From rubber ducks to bumble bees to bananas, buttered corn and the rising sun, this illustrated poem shows how yellow is the happiest of colors. Written by Nancy Prendergast and illustrated by Colleen Cardoza.

  • Children’s fiction
  • Full color illustrations
    (especially yellow ones)
  • Hard cover
    7-inches square, 24 pages
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Purple! A color to behold

In this illustrated poem, you'll learn how purple is the color of many of the things we adore. Written by Nancy Prendergast and illustrated by Colleen Cardoza.

  • Children’s fiction
  • Full color illustrations
    (especially purple ones)
  • Hard cover
    7-inches square, 20 pages
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Cards and Prints

Note cards of select photos from our books. Available in 3, 5 or 10 packs.

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Curt Peoples

American/Canadian Curt Peoples has traveled with his camera to 48 US states, 8 Canadian provinces and 39 countries. He wants all toddlers to know that he and millions of adults everywhere are counting on them to save and restore the great outdoors of our fragile planet – one butterfly and flower at a time.

Nancy Prendergast

Nancy Prendergast has worked for over 40 years in education after earning her Masters in Linguistics and Literature from Northern Illinois University and a PhD in International Education from Chicago’s Loyola University. She wrote poems for her own children for many years, and after becoming a grandmother of identical twin girls, she started writing even more! Of all the time she has spent in colleges and universities, being a Nana and reading to her granddaughters has been the best job of her life.

Colleen Cardoza

Colleen Cardoza is an illustrator from Chicago and is currently working toward her BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York. She works in ink, watercolor, graphite, acrylic, and oil paint. Her work has received an Honorable Mention by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and been exhibited as part of ArtConnected's 2022 Senior Scholarship Exhibition.

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